Intermezzo Concert Band Series - 2023-2024
Grades 2 to 2.5
Intermezzo Concert Band Series - 2023-2024
Grades 2 to 2.5
- Accessible to second and third year musicians
- Range is expanded, but still carefully considered
- Rhythm: whole, half, quarter and eighth-notes, and simple sixteenth patterns
- Clarinet 2 still stays below the break
- Separate parts for Trombone, Euphonium, and Bassoon
- Careful scoring to make the band sound full
- Percussion treated as an important color
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This powerful work by composer William Owens is not only contemplative, but a poignant reminder of our history. A great teaching piece equally at home in the classroom as it is on the concert stage.
ICB2301 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00
This one cooks from the get go! Built from a syncopated rhythmic pattern, the piece drives throughout, but with contrasting lyrical melodic material. This well-scored piece by composer Bruce W. Tippette will come together quickly and make your band sound its best.
ICB2302 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00
Cornerstone is a follow up to Tyler Arcari’s very popular march Capstone. This new march has all of Arcari’s compositional signatures in standard march form but contrasting to Capstone – is more in the style of a circus march. Still extremely accessible for younger musicians, this march is perfect for your next adjudication or festival performance.
ICB2303 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00
Composer Matthew R. Putnam has a way of making a melody stick with you long after the performance is done and the tunes within Forging Destiny are no different. Wonderful writing will have your band sounding its best in any setting.
ICB2304 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00
This piece has plenty of musical inertia to make it a forceful and popular piece with your students and audience alike. Starting with a drama filled mysterious opening that leads to a powerful, up-tempo and rhythmic main section with interplay between the opening material to give the piece unity.
ICB2305 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00
At this point, no one can deny the skill with which composer David Samuel crafts music for the concert band. Fatebringer is foreboding, brooding, and on an endlessly steady march towards its exciting conclusion. Put your brass on display with this dynamic new work for the concert band.
ICB2306 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00
This new work from composer Jorge L. Vargas will have your musicians propelling their way through an exciting new work for developing players. Perfect for a concert opener or closer, Rocketry and Fission is exciting from start to finish!
ICB2307 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00
This thing is sharp! Written at a fast, but accessible ¾ time signature, young musicians will feel as though they are laying down a track for a major movie label! Composer Sean O’Loughlin puts his film-scoring experience to good use in this phenomenal new work for the developing band.
ICB2308 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00
Composer Laura Estes is as comfortable writing lush, full concert works as she is being a little…well, quirky! This lovable charm is on full display in this inventive, clever, and quirky new work for the holiday concert season. Take a wacky ride with Sinterklaas in this holiday celebration!
ICB2309 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00
Ever wonder what a standard gallop would sound like with the chaos that ensues when a dog sees a squirrel? Well, now you don’t have to! Composer Carol Brittin Chambers brings us a wonderful new gallop for developing bands with a unique, clever, and down-right fun twist!
ICB2310 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00
Let’s face it, our students are growing up in a world that sometimes requires an emotional outlet. A Song for Peace can fill that need, and give teachers wonderful opportunities to tie a musical experience in with personal and world-events.
ICB2311 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65.00
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